The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-03
Articles of La;grp]ratiOn
orTHE SOUTH CHA CANAL co.

We, Robert McPherson, W. E. Pope an O. F. Thornton, desiring to incorporate oul selves under the provisions of the Laws o the Territory of Arizona, and especially a. Act of the Legislative Assembly thereo entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations, approved March Sth, 1887, for the purpos, of engaging in the enterprise hereinafter described, do make, subscribe and acknowl edge in triplicate these Articles of incorpo ration.
 The name of this corporation, and b, which it shall hereafter be known, is the South Gila Caual Company, and it's princi pal place for transacting business is tn, town of Aztec, County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona.
 This corporation is organized the pur pose of constructing canal in the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, upon tn, ESouth bank of the Gila River at a point one and ene-half miles below the West end O Oatman Canfion, for the purpose of divert ing and carrying water from said Gila Riv CT for agricultural, horticultural, domestic and manufacturing purposes. III The amount of capital stock shall be One Million (Sl ,OOO, ,O0O,) Dollars, divided int twenty thousand (2O, ,O00) shares of the par value of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars each, which said stock shall be paid ip at the time and under the conditions specified and au therized by the Board of Directors of this corporation. The commencement of this corporation shall be the day upon which these Articles are filed in the office of the Recorder of Yu- ma County. and shall terminate fifty (50l years thereafter.
 V.
 The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors compos- ed of five (5) persons. who shall be elected annually by the stockholders, and shall hold office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified.
 The time and manner of said election shall be provided for in the Bv Laws of said corporation.
 Said Directors shall be subscribers to the capital stock of said corporation, and no person shall be eligible to said office unless he be stockholder in the corporation, and auy person ceasing to be subscriber shall cease to be a Director, and hereafter if any eloU fp ha etAaE holder ho shall cease to be Director.
 The Board of Directors of this corporation shall have power to establish By Laws and make all rules and regulations necessary for the management of the affairs of this eorpo- ration and the officers thereof.
 iT',4 following named persons, who are srhscriLe,5 to the capital stock of this cor norat;on shall constitute the Board of Di. rcctors untiI the 20th day of July, 1888, and nntil their successors are duly elected and qualified. to wit: Robert McPherson, w. E. Pope, o. F. Thornton, G. w. Came ron and G. W. Mauk.
 VI.
 The highest amount of indebtedness, di- rect or contingent, to which the corporation shall be at any time liable, is the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand tS250, ,000) Dollars.
 The stockholders and their private prop erty shall be exempt from the corporate debts of this corporation.
 In witness whereof, we have hereunte set our hands and seals this 20th day of July, 1887 Executed in trinlicate
 tSignedl
 W. POPE. L.. s. Territory of Arizona,
 County of Maricopa. J
 Before me, G. W. Ingalls,, a Notary Territory of Arizona, on this day personally appeared Robert McPherson, W. E. Pope and O. F. Thornton, known to me to be the persons whose names gre subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and each of them ac- knowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of office this 2Oth day of July: A. D. 1887.
 (Signed) G. W. INGALLS,. (Notarial Seal.) Notary Public. Territory of Arizona,
 CouRty of Yuma.
 1, Jos. J. Stein, County Recorder of Yu- ma County Arizona Territory do hereby certify that filed in the records of my of fee, on the twenty y-se ,ond day of July, A. D. 1887, the articles of incorporation of the South Gila Canal Company.
 In witness whereof have here [Seall unto set my hand cGnd affixed my
 official seal, the day and year in thls certificate first above written.
 JOS. T. STEIN,
 Cou nty Recorder The stockholders in the Mohawk Go. are rich again. Arrangements are about completed for beginning work on the canal.